I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.

Life can't be all that bad,' i'd think from time to time. 'Whatever happens, i can always take a long walk along the Bosphorus.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.

Beauty has its own vices.

Love isn't a waste of time

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

It's not the having it's the getting.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

When Maester Aemon heard him sing, he said his voice was honey poured over thunder.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

And he says I have lousy timing

Watching television requires no skills and develops no skills. That is why there is no such thing as remedial television-watching.

If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.